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... hands of rude man , had at first been made a succedaneum to nature ; in the hands of ostentatious wealth , it became the means of opposing nature ; and the more it traversed the march of the latter , the more nobility thought its power ...
... hands of rude man , had at first been made a succedaneum to nature ; in the hands of ostentatious wealth , it became the means of opposing nature ; and the more it traversed the march of the latter , the more nobility thought its power ...
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An Essay Horace Walpole. hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems with the prophetic eye of taste ( as I have heard taste well * defined ) to have conceived , to have foreseen modern gardening ; as lord Bacon announced the ...
An Essay Horace Walpole. hand that planted the delights of Paradise . He seems with the prophetic eye of taste ( as I have heard taste well * defined ) to have conceived , to have foreseen modern gardening ; as lord Bacon announced the ...
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... hand . The sober greatness of Titian is lost , and painting since Carlo Maratti has little more relief than Indian paper . Borromini twisted and curled architecture , * as if it was subject to the change of fashions like a head of hair ...
... hand . The sober greatness of Titian is lost , and painting since Carlo Maratti has little more relief than Indian paper . Borromini twisted and curled architecture , * as if it was subject to the change of fashions like a head of hair ...
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acres admired æra Alcinous ancient Anecdotes of Painting architecture artists basons beauty beech bestowed Bibliographical Note bridge cascades censure Chinese pagoda Christopher Hussey Claud Claud Lorrain cloisters dening designed distant edition enclosure expence fantastic farther fashions ferme ornée firs forest fountains French GARDEN AT STOURTON grace grotto groves Hampton-court hedges HOARE'S GARDEN HORACE WALPOLE ideas improvements invention Ionic order ished Kent Kent's labyrinth landscape lawn lord magnificent marble MODERN GARDENING nature Observations on modern orchard ornament painter Painting in England palace Paradise park parterre perfect Philip Southcote piazza Navona picture pines planted Pliny portico prospect quincunx reign river river Derwent royal rude savage garden scene seat seen shade sharawadgis shrubs sir William Temple solitude spot square steps Stourhead Strawberry Hill STRAWBERRY-HILL style of gardening summer-houses sunk fence surprise symmetry terrass-walk terrasses trees verdant villa vineyard W. S. LEWIS walks walls Walpole's WILLTON WILTSHIRE woods